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Ballmer on Linux
posted by scubacuda on Friday April 25, @11:59AM
from the don't-fear-the-penguin dept.
Open Source We all know Steve Ballmer is trying to get Windows 2003 Server in data centers. In a recent C|Net interview, takes some cheap shots at Linux:
"Innovation is not something that is easy to do in the kind of distributed environment that the open-source/Linux world works in. I would argue that our customers have seen a lot more innovation from us than they have seen from [the Open Source] community.
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Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus years old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a clone of a 20-year-old system. I'm not saying that it doesn't have some place for some customers, but that is not an innovative proposition."

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    Microsoft uses Linux via Akamai servers (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25, @01:31PM (#661)
    Or at least they are in the microsoft.com domain controlled by Microsoft.

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    Not the first time... (Score:2, Informative)
    by scubacuda (reversethis-{moc.emani} {ta} {aducabucs}) on Friday April 25, @03:53PM (#662)
    User #483 Info | http://www.greplaw.org/
    ...they've been [aol.com] caught [ffs.or.at] using *nix.

    Geez, they'll NEVER live down the the fact that they ran their own webpages on Apache [com.com].

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    Hotmail still using FreeBSD (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 28, @01:15AM (#663)
    Hotmail is still using Free BSD [theregister.co.uk].
    Could be the end of the line (Score:1, Informative)
    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 28, @01:34AM (#664)
    Windows 2003 looks like the last and only chance to avoid insolvency. Last and only chance because there is every appearance that only MS-Office and MS-Windows [sec.gov] turn a profit, everything else runs at a loss. So of MS-Office and MS-Windows, MS-Office looks to be late [zdnet.co.uk]. Perhaps too late. License 6 victims will have gotten little for their money and even if there where other new customers, there is nothing to sell. Furthermore, the profitability was due to monopoly rents which are unlikely to persist in light of competition [openoffice.org].

    Microsoft appears to be more a marketing firm that a software firm. Yet despite the apparently desperate m arketing blitz [com.com], this could easily be the end of the line for MS-Windows [pcmag.com].

    Can you say "Statement of changes in beneficial ownership??"

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